Historical observations of abolition have ranged from
perspectives of contempt to acclamation, and now show signs of a
major change in interpretation. The literature often has been
dominated by hostile appraisals of William Lloyd Garrison and other
abolitionist leaders until the 1960s, when historians equated
abolitionism may have fluctuated from one period to the next, most
of this scholarship shared certain assumptions--that abolitionists
provided pivotal factors toward the onset of the Civil War, that
their internal disputes were intensely interesting, and that
somehow they were emblematic of other generations of radicals in
the American experience.
Today the scope of antislavery scholarship was widened to
examine abolition in light of the social, economic, and political
climate of nineteenth-century society and culture. Thus volume of
fourteen new and original essays comprises the first survey of
current directions in abolitionist writings and represents an
advanced perspective in contemporary American historical research.
The contributors include such well-known scholars on abolitionism
as BertramWyatt-Brown, Leonard Richards, James Brewer Stewart, and
William Wiecek.
The authors examine various dimensions of abolitionism from its
religious context to its international effect, from its attitude
toward the northern poor to its impact on feminism, and from wars
of words waged with southern intellectuals to the bloodier
conflicts begun in Kansas. These essays, rather than expounding a
single revisionist attitude, include every major approach to
antislavery -- women's history, quantitative history, comparative
history, legal history, black history, psychohistory, social
history. Antislavery Reconsidered allows both specialists and
laymen a chance to survey recent scholastic trends in this area and
provides for them the assumptions, methods, and conclusions of the
best current literature on antislavery.
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